LTA Connect: Compassionate Pedagogies - Pedagogies of place: Exploring digital and cultural belonging and not-belonging

Bonnie has created a blog to provide updates and reflections on her research the belonging project – belonging – in classrooms, in communities, in culture.  The LTA have also published this blog following an interview with Bonnie Belonging and Place: Digital Pedagogy at University of the Highlands and Islands. A conversation with Dr Bonnie Stewart. – LTA@UHI. 

Session Outline

A strong sense of place - rooted in specific histories, culture, and ecological relationships - can shape possibilities of belonging and pedagogy...but what does place-based learning mean in a multicultural, global, digitalized world? What is the relationship of belonging to place? To participatory digital pedagogies, in an age of AI? 

How can we include all learners in a place-based and belonging-focused approach to learning, across modalities, while understanding not-belonging as an agential choice that students get to make for themselves?

This conversation will explore all these questions and current ideas surrounding them...while highlighting the journey of a 2024-2025 research project that has explored belonging and digital practice at multiple UHI campuses, from the perspective of a Canadian Visiting Fellow. 

Presenter

Dr. Bonnie Stewart is an educator and longtime digital researcher fascinated by the intersections of human identity and the contemporary information ecosystem. Associate Professor of Online Pedagogy and Workplace Learning at the University of Windsor, Bonnie explores the implications of digital networks and Generative AI for institutions and society. Bonnie was an early MOOC researcher and ethnographer of Twitter as an academic environment, and currently investigates what it means to know, to learn, and to belong in a society shaped by digital forces of capital and power. 

Bonnie has worked with learners and professionals on all three coasts of Canada and around the world, and is very excited to be back in Scotland to share the collaborative work of the past year

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